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Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

The following motion was moved by Deputy Thomas Pringle on Tuesday, 30 September 2014:That Dáil Éireann:notes:— 2014 marks the 14th year of the existence of the Direct Provision system in Ireland; — over 4,300 asylum seekers are currently residing in the 34 Direct Provision centres in the State, some of whom have been living in these centres for up to and above 10...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I wish to share time with Deputy McDonald. Direct provision is a blight on this State. The notion that the needs of people at their most vulnerable could be met by accommodating them in cramped, unsafe and crowded conditions is a disgrace. Asylum seekers are forced to live on €19.10 per week while awaiting a decision by the State on whether they are allowed to stay in Ireland....

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: We in Sinn Féin believe the direct provision system is not acceptable for anybody and should be brought to an end without delay. This system is beneficial to nobody, least of all children. It institutionalises people, damages mental health, denies families privacy and forces a lack of work on them. People living under direct provision are forced by the State to live in inhumane...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: I congratulate our two new Ministers of State and wish them well in their new roles. On 24 July 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee expressed concern about the length of time people must stay in direct provision and the lack of an independent complaints mechanism in Ireland. The Government has given some commitments and in particular, the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Eric Byrne: ...refugees who are being facilitated through the United Nations and relocated in various countries. We do a brilliant job on their behalf. The same cannot be said about our approach to those in direct provision. I have experience of direct provision. I stayed a night in New Ross and saw the terrible problems that arose, including those of single men having to share their rooms with...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following :"recognising that:- the current system of direct provision has existed for 14 years; - that the Minister and the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, having visited several centres, both agree on the need to review the current system; and - a key...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Thomas Pringle: ...for their contributions to the debate over the last two nights. It has been very heartening for me to hear the contributions that have come from all sides of the House in condemning the system of direct provision. It is a very powerful message to send that there is across-the-board political support for the abolition of a system that is unjust, inhumane and completely wrong. Perhaps I...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Brian Walsh: ...debate on this issue. Any Member who has ever had contact with asylum seekers would agree the system is in need of urgent reform. The system is a mess and people are spending too much time in direct provision centres. In some cases I have come across, people have spent up to nine years in direct provision. The conditions asylum seekers must endure in these centres are appalling and...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: ...and the health service in regard to symphysiotomy, where the State outsourced its responsibilities to religious institutions and then forgot about them, we now have a repeat of the situation in direct provision centres for asylum seekers. The difference is that they have been outsourced to for-profit private companies. No wonder Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness has said it is a new...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Peter Mathews: I thank Deputy Halligan for giving me a minute of his time and I especially thank Deputy Pringle for bringing forward this Private Members' motion. Some years ago, I visited one of these direct provision centres and I was crushed to see what was there. It was an affront to human rights, an affront to human liberty, an affront to human dignity and it has to stop. It really has to stop. It...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Ciara Conway: ...have food given to me that I could not give my children. Children are finicky eaters. There is not a mother in Ireland who does not try to coax her child with one food or another. A mother in a direct provision centre does not have that luxury. If the child does not eat, he or she goes hungry. The Minister of State knows this. The malnutrition of children in the centres has been...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Andrew Doyle: ...that come before this House and are of a more pressing nature. In 1999, I was a new councillor and, like Deputy Byrne, we were on the newly formed Eastern Regional Health Authority when the direct provision system was introduced. It was brought in at that time because of an influx of asylum seekers into Ireland as the UK changed its rules on how asylum seekers were supported and...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Clare Daly: ...to build a new future. However, the decision to come to Ireland can have devastating consequences. This is graphically illustrated in the case of women in particular. Women are often held in direct provision centres in close proximity, for example, to an abusive partner from whom they cannot get away. Women and girls who are pregnant and seeking asylum in Ireland, as Niall Behan from...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Gerald Nash: ...ever more prominent in public debate over recent times. Like my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, I want change, not just as a public representative but as a human being. One of the largest direct provision centres in the country, Mosney, is in my constituency. I and my colleagues in government want to ensure that, in particular, the needs of...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in order to supplement the miserable amount of income they were given. Of course, a certain industry is building up around all of this for certain people - not all of the people - involved in direct provision. Certain people essentially see it as just a chance to make a profit. We have allowed this to go on until now and not acted upon it. It is even more shameful and indefensible...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: ...want to work and achieve fulfilment, as we all wish to do. The process that determines whether applicants qualify for asylum takes much too long, which is the reason many asylum seekers reside in direct provision centres. The issue must be addressed urgently to create confidence in the asylum process among citizens and asylum seekers. In light of the many graphic accounts we have heard...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate him on his appointment. Some of the things he has been saying on this issue since beginning his new job are very important. The direct provision system is a disgrace and it shames us as a nation and a people. It was one of the first matters that came across my desk when I was elected to Dublin City Council and I still deal with it weekly....

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Tom Barry: ...who were born here, in the country for so long without making a decision on their status. The problem is that we have never had a proper discussion on this. Why are there so many people in direct provision and why are they being processed so slowly? Are we looking for such a considerable burden of proof that it will never be achieved? We need to work to a timescale and work out...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...rights. However, here at home we have the hypocrisy of the Government withholding legal rights for asylum-seeking immigrants and their children, many of whom are Irish-born. They are placed in direct provision facilities where a process which is supposed to take months can take years. According to the Irish Human Rights Commission, it takes between five and ten years in many cases. ...